St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Amer Green and a Gang Of
Hoosiers Take Part in a
Lynehing Bee.
A Brother of the Dead Man
Says His Supposed Victim
is Alive in Texas.
Numerous Indictments Found
Against the Wreckers OF
the Fidelity Bank.
Cashier Barron's Alleged MUIR
dererS on Tpial--Satup-
days Crime Record.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 22.-Early
this morning mob of about 200 men
made an assault on the Jail at Delphi,
Carol county, the purpose being to
secure the person of Amer Green, who
is charged with numbering Miss Luella
Mabbitt. Green had until Wednesday
been confined in the prison at Michigan
City as a precaution against possible
lynching, but on that day was brought
TO Delphi, where his trial was TO be
held. The sheriff did not anticipate any
trouble and had taken no precautions.
When the assault was made he had only
one deputy to assist him. The mob
hammered in the wooden doors leading
TO the residence part of the jail, and
twenty masked and armed men rushed
in and demanded the keys of the
Jail proper. This was refused, when
man with a sledge hammer and cold
chiSel broke the locks and forced the
doors. Green wrenched off piece of
waterpipe and tried to defend himself,
but was quickly overpowered, taken
from his cell, placed in a wagon and
driven out of town in the direction of
Walnut Grove, seven miles east and not
far frOm where the murdered girl lived.
There the execution will take place.
DELPHI, Ind. Oct. 22.-AbOut mid
night tonight mob Of $50 men attacked
the Jail here and took away the pris-
Oner, Amer Green, confined there and
awaiting trial for abduction and the
murder of Luella Mabbitt. There has
been little fear of lynching, and the
sheriff had taken no extra precautions.
The mob was organized in the
eastern part of Carroll county and in
CaSS county from the vicinity of Young
America, where Green and his victim
lived. They came in about seventy-five
wagons and on horseback and were
armed to the teeth. They made no de-
mand of the sheriff until after breaking
in the wooden door leading to his apart
ments. They then asked for the keys
to the Jail, and were denied. With
Sledge hammer the iron doors were
broken open, and the prisoner secured.
He resisted with all his giant power,
ried into covered wagon held
in waiting The whip was ap-
piled and tie horses driven at
full speed across Deer creek,
south of the town, where other teams
were waiting. The procession then pro-
ceeded to Walnut Grove, about seven
miles east, and lynched Green. Amer
Green is one of the most desperate GRIM
inalS that ever inflicted Indiana. In
August. 1886, he abducted and is sup
posed to have murdered Luella Mabbitt,
a farmers daughter. He was captured
in Texas last July, with his brother Bill
Green, also murderer, and both were
taken to Michigan City for protection
from mob violence. Bill Green is now
on trial in Miami county and Amer's
case would have come up tomorrow on
motion for speedy trial.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22.-The News
special from Delphi, Ind, says: 'tWhen
the sun rose this morning it disclosed
the body of Amer Green hanging in the
woods eight miles southeast of Delphi.
Last night 250 masked men quietly en-
tered this town. They surrounded the
Jail, and after placing line in the mid
die OF the street about twenty of the
most determined started for the jail.
They made no demand ON the sheriff
before beginning operations, but sent a
Sledge hammer crashing through the
wooden door leading into the residence
part of the east side. A man with a
sledge hammer began his work on the
doors leading to Amer Green's cell,
and one lock after another sue
cumbed to his powerful blows. When
the sledge was not sufficient, it was
aided with cold chisel. When the
mob reached the cell they had only to
swing open the door and take out their
man. Green, who had always, ever
since his capture, showed the most de-
fiant and nOnchalent mein, had begun to
weep and cry as soon as he found the
mob was coming. In his desperation he
had wrenched loose a section of the
water pipe in his cell with which to de-
fend himself, but four men made bold
and simultaneous rush for him, grap
pling his hands and throat at the same
time. He was bound and hurried out
into covered carriage, held in waiting,
and the whip was then applied. to the
horses. The carriage was driven at
breakneck speed until it
crossed the Deer creek bridge and
reached the top of the hill, when it was
Joined by about sixty other carriages,
buggles. wagons and horseback riders,
and the procession moved toward Wal
nut Grove, where two large fires had
been built which Illuminated the woods.
There the leader of the mob told Green
he must either produce Luella Mabbitt
or die. He called for Mr.. Mabbitt, the
father of the missing girl, and standing
face to face with him, stated that Luella
Samuel Pane, at Fort Worth, Texas. He
was asked why he had not produced
her, and said his attorneys had
advised him to the contrary. Con-
vinced that he was lying, a rope was
stretched around his neck by the mob,
and he was drawn under the tree.
Green stood upon the seat as erect as a
statue, his hands pinioned and the rope
so tightly drawn that he was almost
choked. The crowd was as orderly as
sheriff'S posse could have been had
Amer Green been going to his death in
accordance with the mandates of the
law.
The wagon was about to be driven
ahead, when correspondent, who had
been mute spectator, asked the doomed
man:
''Are you an innocent man?"
81 am an innocent man."
''What is your last request?"
That you inform my mother, send
her my body and tell her / desire to be
buried by the side of my sister in Ohio"
SAT Hebron, Ohio9'
'Yes." But here the horses gave
lurch forward, and Amer Green was
suspended between earth and sky. His
body was cut down at O'Clock this
morning. after it had been viewed by
thousands. The coroner's inquest is now
going OH.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. "a
News special from Peru, Ind. says:
Bill Green, brother of Amer, who is in
fail in this city, is in abject terror, fear
Ing the fate his brother met last night.
There are rumOrs of lynching, but with
out foundation. He reiterates the state
ment that Miss Mabbitt is alive in
Texas,